ah, ah ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm adrian said again. this is what he was alive from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. russia's foreign minister, so gay lover of cools, talk of an imminent invasion of ukraine saying that russia dawson warmed war. a call to arms burkina faso. this new military leader puts the country on a war footing, asking the nation to unite and take on all violence extremist groups. saving

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any russian encroachment and find themselves as hence, as the political standoff, mata mac, the alternate them delivered by russia to nato, and the u. s. confirms that they are not ready for compromise or dialogue. despite repeated assurances from russia, they don't want war. this squadron of soldiers keeps careful watch. and each has a different theory about what form a russian attack would take. fil, we're not sure what the wind is, the model. yeah. ok, or navy is not strong enough to it's found a heavy attack. so i think the coastline could be easily captured. that's my opinion. everyone thinks about a possible invasion through cargo or don boss that's wrong. and if it's necessary to attack those, do it from the see. the setting may seem tranquil, but some worry if this is just the calm before the storm and all my games as we

have hopes for a better future, but if necessary, we will fight back. but we really hope there'll be no attack soldiers tired by the uncertainty, but preparing themselves for any eventually. mamma, jim drew just here, despite the fears of those ukrainian troops, the washing foreign minister has repeatedly said that his country will not invade. so gala roper is expected to meet his us counterpart, enter the blank, and in coming weeks, used to be at the you should receive, if you get there won't be a war as far as it depends on the russian federation. we don't want to war, but we won't let our interests be rudely trampled on and ignored you if you're a girl. if she was living in the u. s. has rejected all the russian security proposals for the last 2 or 3 years. now they're putting the same things on the table. in other words, they're borrowing from recent russian initiatives. this is something, at least bella, russian, and russian military will conduct joint drills. next month,

rush has been deploying extra soldiers and fighter jets to its neighbor and ally in a national address by the russian president, alexander lucas. franco said that hundreds of thousands of russian troops were ready to defend the country. but would you please dara another? so will there be war or not? yes, there will be. but only in 2 cases, if direct aggression is committed against bella. ruth, if a hot war is on the lease against our bell originals. and the 2nd possibility for to happen and for beller, is to take part in one is if our ally, the russian federation is directly attacked. if the same aggression is committed against the territory of the russian federation nations lance, the diplomatic front of the east, the story of the west. let's go live to paris houses. there is natasha. butler is their president, but crohn a fraud, and france has spoken to russia's president. what do we know of the call? natasha? yes, a french her in russian presidents had a phone call,

were told by the lisa that lasted about an hour. we don't have the details yet, but we are expecting her to be brief to buy a lease, a spokes people a little bit later this afternoon, a paris time. what we know though is we heard a little earlier from france is foreign minister who said, really what the situation is, is that the bull he said is in russia's course, and what mac raul was hoping to get from this telephone call. we understand the 2 main things. one of course, to try and defuse the crisis over ukraine to try and persuade personally persuade if you like our placement foods in a to follow the path of diplomacy and not have conflict macro also adamant that he would give a putin a very accent. putin of a clear message that, of course, if russia was to invade ukraine, then that western allies would respond with severe sanctions. the other thing macro

was hoping to do in the self ankle is trying to understand exactly what rushes intentions are. is it intending to ukraine? russia suddenly invade ukraine? russia suddenly says it has no intention to do so. but macro wants to know why is there such a true build up on the border? more transparency from moscow? but i sure many thanks. i'll deserves natasha. battle there live in paris. let's get a little geographical context. now. russia has troops, military equipment, on its border with ukraine to a north in bel reuss, where the to, to take part in war games and to the south and crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. andreas creek is with us in london. he's an associate professor in the defense studies to public kings college london, and the offer of surrogate warfare, the transformation of war in the 21st century. good to be with us, sir. andras does the number of troops that russia has currently stationed, that ukraine's border indicate to you that an incursion or invasion is

a distinct possibility. as the u. s says, well, it all depends on the political objectives ultimately that russia has. so any campaign plan operational plan will stem from the ultimate objective that russia is trying to pursue, is run russia ready to have a war in ukraine? of course, it could do that, but it comes at immense risk and especially in the land warfare domain or, you know, a 100000 troops certainly looks a lot. it would be combined or arms approach, but it will come with at very high cost. and with a lot of resources for casualties on both sides, because i think it the land war for domain particular on the east and, and northern flag of the ukraine. the ukraine is very, fairly well defended, especially after training and, and supplies coming in from the west over the last 78 years. so you credit is a lot more ready to defend itself now than it was in 2014. but there is a weak underbelly. i mean, the weak underbelly, and i think you've seen that on that map is, is really to that was the south now with crimea being occupied by russia. and,

you know, there is a possibility of, you know, the, the russians using the, their advantage in the naval space or in the air, air power space. so the naval space would mean america, a maritime landing, and a, and a phoebe, it's landing, but this would be very difficult to do, and would also come with its own risk. so russia knows this will be a very high cost escalation. if they do so. i also would say that, you know, in terms of logistics, the russians are not ready yet ready yet to maintain a campaign into deep ukraine because the environment is nest for mrs. i was gonna say a 100000 sounds a lot, but is it enough? what is russia's strategy here? is it all about pressuring the western nato into making concessions? is it a good strategy? isn't working, or has russia miscalculated? well, i mean, it's up still up for speculation. i'm. i also would say that the kremlin really has not it made up. it's mine of what it is that it can achieve. really. i think bella

roof is a very important point that you already stated in the initial video. because here we've seen the russians actually getting into beller ruse after everything that happened over the last 23 years. and doing so without any condemnation from the west. it has happened quietly because everyone is focused on you cried. i think there is already no objective that, that russia has achieved in terms of the negotiation over whether you crime would actually never join nato, which is the kind of the request that the russians are making. it seems like the west is, is really diametrically opposed in their objectives. it doesn't seem to be an, a real compromise at this point in time that they can walk to was the problem with the rushes they don't have. they haven't really created an off ramp for themselves for them to step away from, from this escalation into a diplomatic realm. and so it really depends if a proper invasion and i mean a multi a like a, a combined arms operation deeply into ukrainian territory will be very, very difficult. if it's about toppling the regime and key f or toppling the

political status quo, crating chaos that can be achieved through a variety of different means, which doesn't necessarily need an invasion of a 100000 troops. it can be done through, sorry, goods that can be done in the information space for cyber operations. and it can be done by a very small, very focused operation in, in eastern ukraine. but all of that will come with huge economic costs for russia, and it will come with the reputational cost for russia as well. and the question is, is that something that russia is willing to bet? is that a burden that russia is willing to but bear and i think negotiations already going in the right direction. i think much russia wanted to have ultimately, is having a common ground with a finding common ground with the west to negotiate. and i think they've gotten this, they are now sitting at the table, they are talking. and i think that is probably what the russians are trying to achieve. i cannot imagine that they are interested in a major combat operation because nothing what russia has done over the last 30 years would prepare the military to actually conducted operations such as this address could start here by faxing address. craig that and let them do with

a nissan from al serra still come on the program inflation out of control and sierra leone, its leaving many families struggling to put food on the table, a police matter officers in london. so they don't want an internal report to interfere with their investigations into downing street garden parties. and in sports, the pain players go through to reach the world come action from the south american qualifying at coming out. ah, the kid officers military leader says that the country, it will only return to what he called constitutional aud up when conditions are right. pull on read amoeba, address the nation for the 1st time since mondays, military coup, he called on people to take up the fight against armed groups, linked to al qaeda and iso al jazeera nicholas hark reports from we're going to go

haunted by those that didn't survive husband's fathers, but also brothers as young as 12 and 70 year old grandfather's all killed by fighters affiliated to isolate in the northern region of law, whom i had mass gunmen encircled their village and showed them all says you got my moo. now, the women and children were spared, but carry with them an unshakable fear of their returning homes that i cannot go back. their bodies is still lying there, rotting in the ground. falling monday's coo lieutenant colonel pollo. he dominga, made his 1st address to the nation. he put the country on war footing, calling on all to unite and take up arms against arm groups, laska laquanda. so sir ordered me, sir allan, this when the conditions arise, i commit to return to a normal constitutional order fellow citizens, people of bikini faso. while there are many priorities as is clear that the main priority remains security,

we must significantly reduce the area under terrorist influence and the impact of violence extremism. by giving security forces the will to fight, and we must dull me offensive while your men, the buchanan, as a army, suffering many losses despite the support of french forces. this is in al qaeda propaganda. video recorded by fighters attacking security forces in into last november, dozens were killed in the rate that provoked a public outcry for what was seen as a humiliating defeat. demi by deposed president caberry on monday, accusing him of being unable to defend the country. it's in the military camp in downtown longer do that, lieutenant colonel. but all he, demi buys, meeting with civil society actors leaders from the trade unions and members of territories government, the ministers that he was once accountable to are now under his orders. his objective is to rebuild the militaries that they can go from defeat to victory and

regain control of law territory them eva had suggested recruiting russian mercenaries help, but president huck cowboy dismissed the idea. but since the qu, russian mercenaries from the wagner group operating in central african republic, and molly say they are ready to help bertina faso tooth. 2000000 people have been forced from their homes in a country scarred by what feels like an endless spiral of violence. with no peace in sight, nicholas hawk al jazeera walker to go at least 86 people have been killed by storm . anna, which has had south and east africa over the past week. worst his have been malawi, not a gasket, a mozambique ounces. who are stephanie decker? reports gaze of heavy rains of drowned out these villages. the power of mother nature more clear from the air on the ground. tens of thousands of people here in malawi, have been affected. many now homeless that i can, i cannot say i am

a waiter. home we've had floss previously, but they never reached here. yes, monta river could overflow, but the people living near it were the only ones affected, but not asked, living in hilly places. it is only this year that waters have displaced us. the ha, oh some aid is getting through, but the flood waters mean it's still hard to reach remote areas. this floods ah, unprecedented. that's what we're hearing from those that i've been in to wire for all. ah, no money. flat areas where the no money to chris, but this time with anna. oh, most professor. this is the district has. how been hate? heavy rains of had southern africa for around a week now. it's not just malawi. mozambique has been hit hard to caught on camera by one of the rescue workers. this man had climbed up

a tree to escape the fast rising waters. and did madagascar flooding his course, electricity cuts across wide areas. thousands displaced here too, and on it. so it's only a house is flooded with water, it was flooded twice. we were already flooded the other time, but we stayed there. but this time we had to leave because all the mattresses awake and our baby got sick. authorities in our rushing to repair a broken infrastructure and help the 10s of thousands of displaced across these 3 countries. good luck with while weather reports predict, there could be more heavy rains to come. stephanie decker al jazeera in serial sierra leone inflation is forcing many families to cut down on what they eat. the situation is made worse by the devastation caused to food production by both the civil war and the abolla epidemic. i'll just here as i'm at at risk reports now from the capital free town on the struggle for one family in particular to put food on the table. ah mighty cupboard is on

a daily commute to the local market to buy food for her families, dinner. she handles, but the vendors refused to budge. so the mother of 6 has to settle for what she can afford. a few onions, pepper, some rising oil. let me family, i know almost hopeless. well, i can't afford to feed my family like i used to previously. i cooked 8 to 10 cups of rice for the family to eat. well, not any more. no one eats properly these days we eat just a little. she says, prizes have tripled and there is no sign of any reduction. zillions economy suffers from financially stability, mismanagement, exchange rate fluctuations and corruption. all that in addition to disruptions caused by 3 major disasters. when coming 19 began, suddenly economy was already struggling with effects of a civil war and a ball of honors. those disasters devastated production as quickly as your culture

and with rising probably to levels many homeless usa, they can hardly afford 2 meals a day. despite huge natural resources, one of the country's biggest challenges is how to grow its own food. their lives at 40 ports is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. failure imparts everything. you know. so there is an high demand for falling of c o n to demand for somebody's for buy these higher than yours, then the price goes up. you know, there's a simple sin whenever i did my eyes mon shows on the seller the prize will never come down. the manufacturing sector heat hot by the civil war. it bowler and covered 19 is slowly coming back to life. but growth is stunted, just as the local corrosive. de leon continues to wiccan, i guess major caresses. it is very difficult situation at the moment,

especially when the normative prices have increased. so much. costs for manufacturers have also risen so sharply that production has decreased as prizes rise. customers like by re cuba are suffering the fact. i'm a decrease algebra, freetown, sierra leone. in the u. k. london's metropolitan police as wait in on a report being prepared by a civil servant into alleged social gatherings of the prime ministers, official residence during a corona virus lockdown. officers say they want minimal references to be made about the events that they're investigating. which happened at the height of pandemic restrictions as could live power to downing street and london houses here. sandra simmons is that andrew the met at earlier said that it had no objection to this report being released in full now. suddenly it slammed on the brakes. what's happening extraordinary

situation, really the british public, angered at what's happened over the whole affair of party gates and parliament itself, had expected this week to end with a full report of exactly what happened and exactly who was to blame. and boris johnson, very much in a position of danger, politically, and possibly in danger of losing his job. but the police on tuesday said that there was an inquiry they were taking out on their own volition, which was serious. and they gave details of the inquiry saying that they were going to pursue it separately to the other investigation by su gray, which was ordered by the prime minister himself. now, here we are with the please saying, well, we have cooperated and we are cooperating with su grey's offices. now we want them to minimally refer to the main incidents including a whole range of parties,

hearing, downing street and white hole. are there say that other parties can be covered a band, but they these, these are odd delays. are really in a situation where by the police say they can go ahead. but how can they go ahead? how can they go ahead without the main ingredients? that's the point and enter, what are other political parties, the opposition? what are they saying about all of this? well, they're angered by this because the promise was that that would be clarity over the whole affair. at the scottish national party say it's getting murkier by the minutes, the liberal democrats say it's an establishment stitcher, and cast. i'm a leader of the main opposition party. labor is saying that su gray and the metropolitan police are being used as a shield by boris johnson. who wants to be standing back and letting in the thing, kicking it into the long grass. but he says,

you don't need either of them to tell you whether you are to party or not. so really is that situation where by the police, rightly or wrongly doing this, they're being perceived as being involved in this now politically perceived by the public to do so. whether or not it's the correct action. so the decision now is with this civil servant in charge of the whole investigation. so gray, whether or not she decides now? no, i'm not going to present a report that has no guts. it does not have it's remit onset. she's not going to water down perhaps either way. it's not going to be a satisfactory position. she could just say altogether, i will wait for the police report to come out. that's going to delay things by weeks, possibly months at will this help or as johnson. he's hoping so because he's got a lot of impedes who are saying we want to wait until we see clarity in the report before before we decide to challenge him and to get rid of him if need be. i was hoping maybe to take a gamble with what's happening here. is he in control of what's been going on?

there's a question mark over that, and there's andrew simmons reporting live from downing street in london. many thanks. indeed, andrew, china as foreign ministry says that the he, you, the u. n's. human rights chief is welcome to visit chin jang, but not to officially investigate rights. groups of accused china of widespread abuses against weak muslims, including torture and forced labor. the foreign ministry spokesperson says the commissioner cam. this is after the beijing olympics and that the invitation had been extended a long time ago. too long while you were in china welcomes the visit of the united nations high commissioner for human rights to china and sion chance. we'd already sent an invitation and the 2 sides have agreed to maintain communication on china's position has always been clear on the purpose of the visit is to promote exchanges in cooperation between the 2 sides call what we oppose. anyone taking advantage of this for political manipulation in more on this now from out of here is katrina you

in beijing according to bay james, you and human rights chief is welcome to come to china. she's welcome to visit the north western shin junk region, but only with one very important pre condition. and that is that this trip is a friendly visit and it's not framed as an investigation, or as china's for miss re spokesperson, put it as political manipulation. now according to reports, beijing has said that she can come to should young, following the end of the winter olympics, which closes on february the 20th. but we have not had any confirmation as to whether this will go ahead from michelle bachelor's office. we do know 2 things though. first is that she has been seeking what she has described as meaningful access to. she's young to observe in person the treatment of the week and wisdom minority there since 2018. and secondly, her office is currently working on a report and much awaited report into the conditions in she's young that they have

not yet released now dislikes confirmation. human rights groups are already criticizing the invitation, saying that that she should not accept because this is bound to be as heavily controlled, heavily supervised trip and that there's no way that michelle beschler would be able to really authentically or accurately observe what's going on in the region, if she takes up this invitation, rallies have been held across iran in support of the people of yemen. at least 100000 japanese have been killed in the civil war there since 20144000000 others have been forced from their homes as the countries hit by as strikes by coalition let by saudi arabia. now to see rus russell santa has borne out from a demonstration in toronto. i'm not, yeah, martha le most, the largest mosque in tehran. now a thousands of people are now starting to

protest this again. yeah, man, just before did, did the different i to pre or we can only, you know, a good that what's happening in yemen is a human tragedy. how's baby? it's rarely saudi arabian coalition and he called body lanterns and runyan. runyan was them to be installed about a deal with him and, and we can see that thousands of people know, counting against his royal against older i say they said that these dominican tragedy doesn't. yeah. man is caused by dis forces. so yeah, man crisis. yes. in his 7th year and so far you've caused townhouses of the lives they could i, the senior man has been one of the major issue between the run. and so the area in last september, these 2 companies initiated a process to normalize relations,

but softball no break through yet. and dashboard here says that, you know, a solution to the war in yemen. it's going to be quite difficult to see the normalization of relations between iran and saudi arabia. that the, the protest are not going to happen in, in toronto, but in pans of cities across the ron syrian refugees stuck in and are suffering due to severe wintery conditions. heavy snow as cause many of these tense and i'll tie the account to collapse as people struggle to get fuel for heating, they say they're not receiving adequate aid out of us at all as much as we haven't seen snow like this in around 4 years about $70.00 to $80.00 centimeters of snow and the whole camp was destroyed. the top holden's ruin and age is not coming, not as no fuel. no wood is nothing we can buy cold and no children sick. we are all sick that's going to check on the weather. now,

and that is how his rob now that same snow, the clothes down is turnbull and athens and the good part of greece brought some good news to those who like skiing, for example, up in the true das mountains in cyprus. now that's also true anywhere else, whether a high mountains just across the water. it, for example, lebanon. let him know he and expect that he is on mountain, not of where he's going to enjoy a course down in the back of the valley. it also snowed fairly heavily, but if you, in a refugee camp, not quite so much fun. now there is relatively good news in the time being. this is all gone. there are a few showers still of rain passing through stop, brilliant those cars. it was a say a week ago, but that coded us to generate that strong when this mile that blows down the gulf. it's doing so at the moment, fairly dusty italy at its most dusty where no one lives in the empty quarter. for example, if i take a little bit closer in competitor we could go the wind almost as strong. the temperatures are considerably higher so it won't feel particularly cold,

but it does get so at night down the desert. the frost is fairly widespread, but rattled, staffed about 6 degrees. now i see that when become a little lighter, this is no stone developing in the central mediterranean, which i think by monday we're producing huge amounts of snow. again in turkey. still to come here. all that is all. i do not want anyone to go through what i have been put through one man's journey to ensure that migrants held in libby and detention centers are treated with dignity, a mysterious object and the milky way baffling scientists as it releases huge waves of energy like clockwork. and in sport will look ahead to the quarter finals of the africa cup of nations, the latest football coming up. ah, the corona virus has been indiscriminate in selecting its victims. it's devastating effects of plague, every corner of the globe,

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ah, hello again. adrian finnegan here in ohio with the da's office here at the headlines. rushes foreign minister says of the country doesn't want war with ukraine, but the kremlin won't allow its interests to be ignored. so guy elaborate was speaking of the u. s. warned russian invasion was a distinct possibility. west african leaders are holding a virtual emergency meeting of the military coup in between a fossil, the regional block eco was, has condemned to take over. a police of london have asked a civil servant preparing a report into alleged breaches of pandemic restrictions within the u. k. government to minimize references to events currently under investigation by offices returning to our top story. now, the rising tension between russia and ukraine,

the u. s. is threatening sanctions if moscow invades these would likely target vladimir putin directly, but may do little to hurt the russian president estimates of his wealth very hugely . putin himself declares only a $140000.00 annual salary and a few modest assets. but some experts put his riches between $100.00 to $200000000000.00 as for how he got that money. well, there are few theories on that. one is that he's plundered the assets of his enemies while engaging in protection rackets with oligarchs. another is that he stolen rushes wealth by getting kickbacks from his friends and family when they're awarded lucrative government contracts. his cronies, also becoming unimaginably rich. and the money is believed to be all but untouchable. it's so well hidden that when western sanctions are applied, putin is large immune. the spring in glenn decent and all slope. he's a professor of international relations at the university of southeastern norway and

the editor of russia in global affairs. good to have you with us again, glen, do you agree with that that if weston sanctions applied, especially against brit, president, putin, he's largely immune. well, i guess this, the rumors about the great fortunes are great. money acquired by cooking is never actually been proven though it's, it's more an accusation. but of course all sanctions can, i guess brush can undermine the economy in there for labels ability. but i do not think that this the sanctions would have the desired effect. and again, this is the kind of an old thing we're trying castillo, which is ever since 2014 and united states has been pushing sanctions on russia with this exact the desired effect. it was that this is dropped, the russian economy, which would make the oligarchs attempt to push out within from power. however, we have to recognize this never happened. russians and used the sanctions. or even

though it was painful as an opportunity to reduce reliance on the west, i'm becoming more self reliant, but also redirecting its caught me towards the east of premier the china. so i think that the russian economy is much stronger today and is more sanctions proof. so further sanction, i think will only result in more of the same, which is russia will continue to reduce its reliance on the west and reoriented cells towards the east. something that would also hurt your being the economist by the way. so you say that, but russia has been preparing and, and possibly trying to insulate itself against sanctions for quite some time. now. 1 yes, yes, that is correct. but again, describe the ukraine for russia. we can focus on what is meant by russia is what's called a dramatic moment when the web backs the public dental coverage in 2014 for the russian. the signal that clear their entire great, the europe dream, which i've had since i got a bunch of states that did that they would ever be able to integrate with the,

with create a common europe. what happens is 2014 is to replace this with brand new ration and given up on the dream of going through europe, and then instead pursuing gregory ratio with china main partners. so, so the goal is not to one day return under the u. s. lenses and economic infrastructure, but rather create new ones in corporation with china so so this function is all only it will cause pain but intensify rushes push towards to them. so that what you're saying here is that the west is largely exhausted. the use of sanctions as a weapon. yeah, well there's not many more sanctions they can try to kick your russia sweet or put sanctions on the north stream too. but, but this will hurt more than the russians again, process a very quickly diversifying and 2nd moment coming to the energy is obviously one of these. so it's a rush of energy export to europe disrupted by western

sanctions, iraq, and try and continue to foster towards the it all of course lose a lot of revenue. but i think the sanctions because this whole issue is an issue of extra special threats. russia is made on in russia is willing to accept much more pain and diversified economy. i think it will probably continue until the rpms feel that the sanctions are becoming too painful to them. good talk to you again, glen many, thanks. date land isn't bad. and also refugees and migrants detained in libya, had been pleading for their release, had follows a recent crack down in the capital. tripoli met with a migrant who's demanding better treatment at the hands of the authorities. i'm younger, david oliver. yes. oh no, i'm 25 years old and i'm from south saddam. i left my country due to civil war off leave year. the 1st cd that i entered was the red yanna east of go

for when i met with traffic because. busy they had to kid, not me, that had to detain me. they tortured me somehow or the torture ice cubed. i advanced towards the capital on the way i was met with a couple of detention. i was no fault to take the c has the only option. i'm taking to see knowing that i might draw my mind, but there are noise kit brought when i took the see. unfortunately, i was intercepted. the took us to the detention center. the come morning. you wake up on if you lucky, the give you a piece of bread with a piece or a portion of cheese. we did not have cleaned lincoln water. we were forced to drink from the toilet, the croc down on refugees. salems eagles,

and immigrants who lived in a good god. it was something that we never thought it would happen. those were unlucky god taken to the detention centers. those who is kept the same day and went to the you in the the are there where they are asking for of a way him out of the country. we had no thought be well surviving and slipping by the sidewalk. despite our 100 days, protesting and doing peaceful demonstration, calling to leave the country where supplies by the authorities. busy arrival the cam on default of billy, arrested, showed that people beat them and took them to detention center. i deserve the right to leave and express myself and have indication like any other human beings from my own experiences. what i have going through, i want to become

a civil rights defender. i want to become a lawyer because i do not want anyone to go through what i have been put through in my 12 years of displacement and eggs i, i will, salvador has led the way in adopting bitcoin, being the 1st country to take it on us legal tender last year, but generating the digital coin requires huge amounts of energy. now the country's president has an ambitious plan to create a bit coin, city using the power of a volcano. it's a big gamble, and people are skeptical, as john holman reports from the capital. it was the 1st country in the world too. big coin is a national currency. now, so with those poised to take its gamble further, the president and if i were to few party announced that he's planning a whole city based on the crypto currency. what is the grocery got to include? that is gonna include of everything, residential areas, commercial area services,

but will have 0 income tax 0 capital gains tax. so you know, in both you make all the money you want to. we're fine because this is a fully, fully ecological city. that's work that works. and it's energized by able keno, bitcoin city shapes like a symbol of the crypto currency itself. it will run with your firm will electricity from the nearby volcano, which will also be used to generate more bit coins. it's an invest his fantasy, but there are worries. it's little more than that. what, why is that? why their doubts about a lot of other things because there is now 30 at this point, but i can tell ok now which example mellow canada and the government has claim will be the one l b using found mining. actually, it allows for that kind in jail taylor exploitation. her associations been critical of president bush kelly, but many big coin as

a rule. so skeptical. nobody seen any detail plans, but the government still plowing ahead, planning to so $1000000000.00 worth the so called big coin bonds, half of which would be used for the cities infrastructure. the other half will be used to buy up more bit coins. the hope is that thereby you goes up and helps pay off some of those. so with those large national debt. oh, some of those finances aren't looking to rosie. it's been running up a big budget deficit has payments looming, been trying to negotiate alone with the international monetary fund. but so far, that hasn't come through yet. hoping the bitcoin volatile currency, which the i m f, doesn't approve of the country using will help solve the debt problems. represents an obvious gamble. meanwhile, and some of those pers, bitcoin experiments using the crypto currencies, legal tender along with the dollar continues. government allies say it's doing great, but in 4 months,

a big point over 4000000 people have become digitalized and the grant, the vast majority of them didn't have bank accounts, and that's over 2 thirds of the population. the question is, how many of those $4000000.00 people just use the government's bitcoin up once to get out the $30.00 worth of the crypto currency given away for free? who knows? no public stats are available. what is known is that people have struggled to use the app and the big coin cash points from the star, singleton my medicaid. and i've been trying to get him to my account for 2 weeks, and i can't do it. it's active and registered and i've been calling support, but they haven't been able to search it for me. the governments came to remind that it's early days yet with the newly planned big coin, city and bonds. it's certainly up the states and it's back to crypto currency john home and now does it el salvador. that's bringing glenn goodman in london. he's a crypto currency expert and author of the crypto trader. good. have you sent glenn,

a bit coin bombed? what do you make up? well, what we can is basically done is take the country's future packet in a big suitcase. take that suit case down to a casino and saying, right, put all of this on beck coin is. he's tied so much of the country's future to the price of an asset that, you know, i trade it, i invest in it, but by golly, it rises and falls in price pretty significantly. i mean, it's already hogged in price since just a couple of months ago. for example, it may double in price, it may half in price, it's extremely volatile. and as for the big coin bond itself that you just mentioned that adrian it's, it's a bit of a gimmick, frankly, because actually what he's doing is placing a normal bond, i. e, asking investors for dollars, just like you normally do, he's asking them for dollars. the difference is that he's saying half of those dollars that are invested in the bond will be put into bitcoin. now we invested in

big coins. are big coin does well than the country does well, and the investors do well, if bitcoin does badly, everybody is in very deep trouble or. and so he's hoping that enough people will be attracted by the novelty of this. we all know that the crypto is currently, but big thing, it seems to be that everybody wants to, to, to get in on, on this and the hope that it starts going in the right direction again. but he's, he's trying to plug a big hole in his finances as me. yeah, a huge hole is. this is the problem really isn't. for example, he's got a bond coming jus in a year's time, an $800000000.00 debt. that needs to be paid. how is he going to pay that? i mean, really, he'd like this 1300000000 dollar loan from the ins, but of course he has a spurned the i m f in some deep to some degree by being so keen on bitcoin cuz they really don't like that coin. well, they don't like the fact that it's like volatile in price, obviously, but they also don't like the fact that i know that some people use it for things

like money laundering that you know, they don't have total control over the comings and goings of crypto in the same way that the i m f can watch the dollar where dollars come and go very closely within the existing international banking system. so he's alienating the i, m f. he might not get his loan from them and he might have to rely on came crypto investors to try and invest in his big coin bond. instead, you're a came crypto investor, which would, would you get into it? i know, personally, i wouldn't, i'm, because there i've, i've, i mean there are lots of different ways to invest in by coin and crypto, and there are just better ways for somebody like me to do that. but is, is it a bad investment, per se? put it this way, you know, when you're lending money, you know, you know what they're doing here is you've got 2 types of risk. you haven't just got the risk of the price of bitcoin falling. you've also got the risk of never getting your money back from the l. salvador government. i mean that that's at the

moment is marked as junk debt. it's considered highly likely that kelly will just never pay back his debts. that's how the market is currently pricing. it very low, which is why he's resorting to the desperation measures of issuing a gimmick. bitcoin bond. because if you tried to issue a normal bond, he probably wouldn't raise the type of money that he's hoping for from ordinary investors. really good to talk to glenn. fascinating, really enjoy that going good for the and lunch. just library associations and free speech groups say that they're facing an unprecedented campaign. the banned books in the u. s. parents are objecting to a wide range of titles that they claim. so division and induced to stress and white students, i'll just serious help or time see reports battle is waging at school boards across the united states. i'm sure we've got hundreds of people out there that would like to see those books before we burnham books deemed to be sewing division in the

classroom by republican control boards. a being reviewed by authorities. some are being removed from the shelves. i don't know that any advocate who has been working on tracking or paying attention to the freedom to read can recall the time when the same book was removed or targeted with such vitriol and haste. in so many places all over the country at one. yeah, and then the involvement of politicians, the state legislature is governors. this is categorically different to this is next level. we're going to embrace our parents not ignore them. the issue is key to the republicans re taking the governorship of virginia for the 1st time in 11 years, even after donald trump. popularity had slumped down last november. this is one of the advert used by the victorious campaign and my son showed me his reading assignment, my heart song. it was some of the most explicit material you can imagine. he's

referring to beloved by the nobel prize winning with attorney morrison and the count of american slavery. that does contain some explicit scenes. a son would have been 17 or 18 at the time of his assignments. it's all part of a wider cultural war against c. r t or critical race theory, and academic discipline using law class from gender, to analyze racism in america, country to the claims of right wing politicians. there it is not taught at school, but at universities. we're trying, but some argue that discussing race at all, either school classroom or anywhere else is itself a form of racism. nobody wants this crap. ok, this is an elite driven phenomenon. x can, these book stamps was the 2nd most targeted book for bombing in the u. s in 2020, according to the american library association, traces the current mood of censorship to a backlash against the black lives matter protests of 2020 more people,

particularly more, more white americans seeking to understand the history and the, and really the presence of, you know, racism, the history of all the different groups that, that have formulated this country. then you had this bitter attack to prevent people from learning their history from understanding their history from seeking to understand how it was that george floyd was, was murdered in such a brutal way. but the range of books being taught should go way beyond those analyzing race in u. s. society. the selection suggests hostility to any consideration of gender sexual identity, reproductive rights, or, in this case, just a simple acknowledgement. the 3 african american women were crucial to nasa in the sixty's. in fact, many of the list circulating objectional books have not originated locally from concert parents, but have been compiled by groups funded by national republican party donors. it's pretty clear that one side of the political spectrum believes is

a winning political issue and issue the republicans will mobilize the suburban white electric ahead of the upcoming mid term elections. she ever chancey al jazeera washington. the 1st batch of a to come directly from china has arrived in tara, the 33 town shipment includes food, drinking water, tents, and radio equipment. but people on the island will have to wait for the aid to be distributed. covered 19 prevention measures mean that everything has to be disinfected and quarantined for 3 days. a friendly as prime minister scott morrison has promised father 703000000 dollars to help protect the great barrier reef from environmental threats. he says that the investment but also helps to kill thousands of jobs that depend on the reef. sarah clark reports from brisbin. the $700000000.00 announcement will fund a range of conservation projects to protect the great barrier reef and comes a year off. the world heritage site was almost listed as endangered by the united nations. the funding will go toward improving monitoring systems,

water quality programs, and greater protection for coal communities. with more than half of the co population killed over the last decade, due to mass bleaching triggered by climate change. this is an election year and this funding announcement is the government's attempt to convince its critics that it's doing it bit to address climate change. the united nations world heritage committee will reassess the state of the reef again this year and vote on whether it should be added to the endangered list. scientists say the great barrier reef has already suffered mass co motel. is he due to hate stress and severe bleaching the next 12 months is expected to deliver record high temperatures and critic se friday's funding announcement doesn't address the key issue of global warming, and is more about protecting tourism. job. astronomers in australia have discovered a spooky celestial object, which they say is unlike anything they've seen before. the mysterious body releases a huge burst of energy like clockwork,

every 18 minutes and 18 seconds. the lead research says that are of objects in the galaxy that switch off. nothing with such frequency has ever been detected before. speaking of huge bursts of energy as far over the sports as well fed. thank you. so my children are one day away from the quarter finals of the africa cup of nations in cameron. last day we'll take off with the whole station taking on tournament debutantes, gambia and walla cameron are looking to win the tournaments for a 6 time. they be calm rolls to reach the last 16 while gambia knocked at guinea to advance. also on saturday, burkina faso take on tennis. yeah. and then on sunday, the big one record 7 time champions. egypt thinks morocco senegal are up against equitorial guinea and we've been speaking to football journalist, a sure come a good shot. and she believes there's plenty of potential for shock results in the last stage. there's been so many surprises. that's why at this point and it's on

them and we don't have my, i'll junior what the defending champion gonna been the exciting like that's the gumby or the lowest run team is going to make 150 but do not, you know, doubt them. they can do anything, they have nothing to lose in this one. they've been promised each player $20000.00 if they can defeat cameron. that's a good motivation for them. and also for cameron, obviously to have been sent because he's the current leading folks for at the 6 goes and also took what it can be with another 3. so that's enough quiet power to sort of, you know, get the job done, looking good. if not last, at home in about 34 years, that's a good record. if you look at it that way. however, that was not, you know, hope that the african since 1972. so it should be interesting, you know, full camera to go all the way more looking also very solid,

but they have the test to beat the 7 time champions, egypt in north africa. but then ago, you know, grinding the results in their said, your mind that is a doubtful that you're on the lions. but they should also be one of the type of a debate at this point. the and south american world, qualifying brazil, you've already booked a spot in cap har were held to draw by a team, still trying to secure qualification. that's ecuador. one of the most dramatic moments of the match came in 20 minutes in after going ahead. early brazil had emerson sent off for making rather bizarre challenge. the dorian finally got themselves level in the 2nd half with felix torres scoring the equalizer. 11, draw means ecuador sit. 3rd in the 10 team group, the top 4 automatically qualify for cats are 2022. our

gina has already qualified for the world cup. they meet chile, t one. it's a damaging result for the delay and you sit outside the qualification spots in their best health is likely to be finishing. fis qualify for an intercontinental plane. louis flores was on the score sheet for year. why is they picked up a crucial when you're a why beating pair? why? why no to set forth in the standings. ruffin model is now just one, went away from winning a record breaking 21st grand slam title. he's in to the finals of the australian open. the 35 year old overcame a spirited fight from italian 7. the seed. mateo martini. after winning the 1st 2 sets, their team came alive. take to 3rd, a sad laughter grueling battle on chord the world. number 6 closed at the match in 4 sets in dallas currently in a 3 way tie with no back jock of edge and roger federer with 20 grand slam title.

for me it's all about, it's all about us. i know been more than anything else. no, it's just amazing. you know, as i said a couple of days ago, and i have been a little bit lucky doing my career with some injuries on the and all the times i plan amazing finals with good chances against all up to 1012 against roger to 1017 . i was close a couple of times, i feel very lucky that i one one's in my korea 2009, but i never thought about another chance in 2022. so i. 7 was daniel mecca, dev lost his temper and fridays, other semi final russia world. number 2, you accused his opponent stuff. no suspicious of having his father coach him from

the sidelines. but the greek who won the 2nd site was defeated in forsyth. if madame does win the file against the dal had become the 1st man in the open air to win his 1st 2 grand slams back to back. i don't think emotions like bad emotions helped me too much. and when i made it i, i many times i lose the mesh because of this because you lose concentration lose too much energy, which may be in the foresight is not enough. so soon as i've gone in, i was like that was a big mistake, but i'm happy that i managed, you know, to re concentrate. and in the and b a, the golden state warriors continued their hot winning street the bait the minnesota timber wolves for their 4th straight when nearly crowned all star steph curry scored a team high. 29 points in the game or quite thompson added 23 more to leave the warriors to 100 and 24th 215. when golden state have won the last 5 at of 6 games. okay, and that is our sport for now. back to you,

adrian. pharma. thanks dave. that's it from the inside. but i'll be back before the day's news just to see you then. ah, as the world's best athletes prepared for the winter olympics stating is embracing itself for the arrival of an estimated 11000 people, kind of 0 tolerance, corporate strategy work. and despite did not employ, which one is winter game trying, moving you the latest date is 2022 winter olympics on al jazeera joined the debate . the eraser of right people from the american and global story was very powerful. on an online, i'd your voice, the comment section is right here. join our conversation. we had all protected when everyone is protected. it is not by being nationalistic about us. you just look at it in a very different way. say that perspective men and men meeting each other and they

don't have any solution. let me put it clear for you. this dream on al jazeera, a journey, a journey, a base, and one of necessity, a 3 different missions that all facing the challenge of driving on nicaragua was unpaid roads at the mercy of its unpredictable tropical with risking he told me the co rack you are on al jazeera, ah, ah, rivers are trying out greasing land is shrinking in some roots long used by wildlife for migration have been blocked by human settlements. to deal with all this, kenya needs more money for conservation. and with a corona of ours, pandemic keeping many visitors awake revenue from tourism isn't enough here at the national park. and you all ceremony has been launched the hall precious than

individuals pay $5000.00 us dollars to name elephant. the aim with yet is to raise one, me get on much of it for conservation initiatives. ah, bushes, foreign minister, so gay lover officers of moscow will not san war boss. it wants to west to respect its security interests. ah. again, i'm adrian for them. this is al jazeera, alive from doha, also coming up, leaders of west african nations, way the options on how to respond to a military coup, and became a fossil inflation out of control in sierra leone, leaving many families struggling to put food on.